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No passion is so universal as the love of power. It is the instinct of every man to climb up the ladder in position and power and nobody wants to remain in lower rung. Man tries to achieve it by hook or by crook. However, excess of desire for power often leads to fatal catastrophe. Francis Bacon rightly comments: "It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others to lose power over a man's self". 

Sometimes a whole nation is maddened by this wild passion and tries to swallow smaller and weaker neighbours. This ambition for power results in getting more and more power just to have more authority over all. To rise to the pinnacle of power, the powermongers adopt unfair and crooked means. This uncontrollable demon devours morality and humanity and leads to corruption, cruelty and vices. "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely"-Lord Acton writes wisely to Bishop Creighton. 

But the temptation of this passion cannot be denounced always. When power is obtained by legitimate means and exercised judiciously delivering welfare to the people, it is a boon and only in such cases, it can be appreciated as a very noble passion.